Credit: By mollystevens on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Content and the journey: Building a good user experience for news sites Based on the advice of user experience and news design experts, this feature outlines eight pointers on offering audiences a good user experience By Rachel McAthy • 9 min read
News Blottr to launch citizen journalism syndication network Founder of Blottr Adam Baker says the syndication network will offer incentives to contributors whose content is placed into it and made available to subscriber news outlets By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
Credit: Financial Times on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News FT running 'digital learning week' for staff The three-day 'digital learning week' will cover five main themes: social media, mobile, digital advertising, data analytics and other digital trends in the media industry By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Building an 'in-the-moment experience' with The Grid Executive producer for digital news Cory Haik discusses the vision behind its live 'grid', built for the US political conventions, and the potential to 're-fashion' it for other news events By Rachel McAthy • 4 min read
Credit: Whitefield_d on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News Google 'experiment' lets content creators charge for articles The Google Wallet platform lets web users purchase articles from three initial partners for between 25 to 99 cents By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
Credit: Dreamer, via Wikimedia Commons News Piano paywall in Slovakia increases subscriber content According to Piano Media, which provides the national paywall, four participating publishers will again add to their exclusive offerings for subscribers in a bid to further 'increase reach' By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
Credit: Eric Hayes on Flickr. Some rights reserved. News How Yahoo is offering 'contextually relevant ads' for publishers The new service, announced late last week, will give publishers a 'majority' share of revenues raised by user engagement with the advertising By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
Credit: Still taken from Irish Times video News Lessons from The Irish Times digital challenge The digital challenge came to a finale on Friday when data visualisation startup GetBulb was named winner of a €50,000 prize By Rachel McAthy • 5 min read
News Digital science mag Guru receives mobile app funding Guru Magazine, which launched early last year, is hoping the funding will help it reach a larger audience and launch a mobile app by the end of the year By Rachel McAthy • 3 min read
News Independent appoints digital editor to lead publishing 'evolution' Christian Broughton has been appointed at the Independent's new digital editor and as such will lead the digital brand across platforms By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News Independent 'likely' to ditch trial North America paywall Almost a year after launch the Independent is reviewing its trial metered paywall for readers in the US and Canada as it 'has not delivered on the ambitions from a revenue standpoint' By Rachel McAthy • 2 min read
News PPA Awards: The Week iPad app named digital edition of 2012 Other winners include Future, named Digital Publisher of the Year for consumer media, while RBI's Estates Gazette took the title for business media, at the annual awards By Rachel McAthy • 4 min read
